The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1887-08-10

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| auspices Of the Helen Chalmers Literary
Association The court room was {
scene of brilliant decoration. The booth:
were presided over by young ladies il
various national costumes. The attend
ance was particularly large, as the alflil
was given for tie benefit of Spartan.
, burg's faroritcs, the Morgan Rifles. The
flag drill was executed by the following
young ladies as sponsors for the com.
panies: Sumter Guards, Miss Ernestine
Heinitsh; Fort Motto Guards, Miss
Reina Allen; Morgan Rifles, Miss Nellie
Elford; Butler Guards, Miss Fannie
Blake; Greenv;llc Guards, Miss H En-
erson; Manning Guards, Miss Clarice
Cotton; Eaisto Rifles, Miss Mildred
Thompson; Laurens Guards, Miss Carrie
Mcl,iakin; ,cwberry Rifles, Miss Helen
3Ic.Iakin: Eichland Volunteers, Hiss
BESSIE Means; North Carolina troops,
Miss Sadly Hardy; South Carolina, Miss
Helen Russell; Georgia, Miss E. B..
! Chase. Tie flag company was un:lel
command OF Capt. Z. Bacon, the uniform
being blue SKIRT and body with white
trimmings, and black felt hats with
black piunGs. The evolutions OF their
! gallan. military sisters were largely
cGeered by the various companies pres
cnt.
Il is estimated with every show OF rea-
son that fully 10000 people passed
through the streets OF the Farmers City
on Thursday. Certainly there appears
to be no lint to the energy displayed
by the farming classes in the endeavor
10 at least visit TIE Encaupment. There
are instances OF men, wcmc0 and chill
dren who walked from fifteen to twenty
miles during tie night to reach the city.
Taking the Eucampment all IL al, it is
something novel in South Carolina, and
some of the old men say that it has been
the FIRST tine in this State that a success
! fl,l effort las been made to attract and
hold together for such length Of time
so many thousands of the farming class.
There is, indeed, no telling how long
the multitudes viii remain IL camp, for
they have come well provided for any
emergency. The woods around the city
! are alive with men, wouen and children,
some of them having found acc ommoda-
tons in the wagons ard others sleeping
ont under the open sl;?, which for the
past TWO days has 6een particularly
favorable.
I TIE LAST DAYS.
rs to the character Of the crowd it is
! possibly the most motley that has ever
come together in South Carolina AL
classes arc represented and the visitor
can see almost everybody from the
Governor oi the State to the bootblack
from the neighboring rival city. The
plain country girl and the bellies Of
Ga1f1ey City, Laurens, Union, Spartan
burg, Greenvi!le and other centres Of
fashion are to be found indiscriminatcly
mixed in thc crush at the art gallery, or
IN the pavilion, or IN tie State building
rooms. or in the inter State booth Of the
Women's Christian Temperance Union,
where iced waters and tracts are dis
pensed with equal liberality. This booth,
by the way, is one OF the prettiest
structures Oh the grounds and was erect
ed under the direction Of Mrs. ". X.
Blake, the president OF the local union.
The morning session began at 10
O'Clock, President Duncan in the chair.
This Gay had been devoted to the exer-
cises Of the State Agricultural and Me
chanica! Society. The president invited
all the farmers to visit the fair next fall.
An instructive essay was read by AIr.
John T. Townsend, the well known stock
raiser and cotton planter of Edisto island,
on the future Of the sea islands. a great
many of the points made were al OF g
revelation to the up-country farmers.
TIE next address was by Mr.. E. T.
Stackhouse, Of Marion, on experiments
with the cotton plant. The deduction
being that the farmer who makes living
at home, and makes cotton a surplus
crop, is generally solid and safe.
/ Then came an interesting discussion Of
the question whether it pays the farmer
/ to substitute cotton seed meal for his
cotton seed as fertilizer. Among the
! speakers were Chancellor Johnson, Of
Marion, Messrs. NJ. L. Donaldson, Of
! GrecnvilIe, Holleyman, of Orangeburg,
and W Jennings, OF Berkeley, who
maintained the negative of the question.
The affirmative was unsuccessfully argued
! by MIR Peterkip. of Orangcburg.
This inauguration Of general debate
has been looked upon by the promoters
Of the enterprise here as the beginning
Of the practical school work and education
Of the farmer, ard will be developed with
wonderful results at future encampments.
Col. ". D. Evans, of Marlboro, read a
paper on the duty of the farmer as cit
izen and IS q legislator. Mr.. D. X.
Norris, of Anderson, discussed in very
able paper the necessity Of diversified
agriculture. Experiments with the corn
plant, by Mr. B. f. Perry, Of Greenville,
contained many suggestive points and
brought about another experience meet
ing, the debaters being Capt. c. Petty,
of Spartanburg, Nessrs. G. Dixon and
A. AIcBee, OF Greenville, c. Turner, cf
Spartanburg, and Il. I. Hawlsy, Of Dar-
lington. The session closed with an
excellent and humorous speech by Col.
j. G. Mchissick, CT Union.
Friday was Governors day The
opening address being made Ey Coy.
Richardson. Among the other addresses
was one or the subject OF signal service
II its bearings on agriculture, by Capt.
4. Graham, of the e. S. Signal serTice.
Camp was broken and the military
companies returned homo Saturday.
:, Siory OF :: Snake and = Pig.
Jasper Bryan, living out on the river,
east OF town, relates 8; remarkable Incl